Monday, January 13, 2014

The grass is greener...

1/13/2014

For real
though. The grass is green. All the snow...well most of the snow melted already
cause it was 40 these past few days...80 degrees increase. Crazy. Indiana
weather may just be as close to insane as Utah's.

Well...it
seems like I emailed ya like yesterday...but lo and behold another week has
passed...And tomorrow marks 5 months...WHAT. Crazy.

So you heard
from me Tuesday...we were semi grounded, so we had an appointment we went to
after we emailed. We taught our Jehovah's Witness Investigator. I think we've
come to the conclusion that she's trying to convert us. But she feels the
spirit in our lessons and keeps letting us share more, so it's crazy. She'll be
a Mormon soon, I just know it :) That night, we hung out with the Downards
again since we could only go to people we knew and they offered us dinner
again. So Monday and Tuesday were kind of weird, not typical missionary
days...but they were still good!

Wednesday was
crazy too. Never a dull moment. We had district meeting in Frankfort (Go Hot
Doggers) and the roads were terrible so it took us quite a while to get there
and back. When we got back, there was a less-active who needed a blessing and
some service (she hadn't had her dishes done since Christmas because her sink
was clogged.) so we did her dishes in the bathroom. It was pretty nasty...I did
really well until the very end and there was some tomato soup that had been in
this pan for who knows how long...I only gagged a little. Sister W was crying
cause the sour cream had gone bad. It was rough. But sacrifice brings forth the
blessings of heaven right? We better get some celestial bonus points :) But
hopefully she gets feeling better and her sink gets fixed soon! That night we
had dinner with the M's and went to visit another less-active, who was also
sick. This sickness is just taking over!

Thursday, we
went contacting then had weekly planning. We then got to meet with this member
who is just hilarious. I love the people here in Kokomo. We were going to
dinner after that at the S family (the family with 7 kids...don't know if I've
talked about them...). We were waiting for Brother S to go get the Elders so we
were just chatting with Sister S when a phone call came that Brother S's tire
had fallen off...so we went and taught Sister H while they called a tow truck
then went back to the S's to eat. Crazy night.

Friday, we had
correlation at the Batis' then we did service at the library (they're going to
put us in the genealogy section! Stoked! They all know about familysearch.org,
so it's pretty sweet. The lady there is going to be Mormon all based off that,
I just know it. Did I already say that once for our Jehovah's Witness? :) Then we did some contacting, got Sister W
knocking on some doors and visited some members...you know, the usual.

Saturday was
busy, busy. We started out at Sister Tucker's, had lunch, met with one of our
investigators. She's kind of stuck on getting things proven, so we focused on
how prayer comes into all of this. Hopefully this week she'll pray and she'll
be able to see the importance of the Holy Ghost. We did a bit of tracting,
found a guy who was AWESOME, and he's going to be Mormon :) No we just had
awesome conversation with him and just got to testify hardcore of what we
believe. It was so awesome, especially to help Sister W see that people are nice
some of the time :) There are people prepared, we just gotta find them! That
night, we saw quite a few less-actives, so that was good.

Sunday...oh
how I love the sabbath. We had church and started the new manual. I'm stoked to
learn from Joseph Fielding Smith. After church, we met a less-active who lives
downstairs from us, taught a member, and went tracting and found some solid
potentials. Pretty sweet. One guy was trying to tell us that religion was a
road block and that we were blinded by our beliefs and we just testified to him
and basically just had to turn and leave his porch saying "have a nice
day!" to leave. Pretty funny. It's amazing how much satan works against
our church. It has to be true or he wouldn't work that hard. Crazy Crazy.

Today is P-Day.
Woot Woot!

I think that's
about it for now...Hopefully you all have a fantastic week! I can't believe
it'll be the 20th next week...where is January going?

Answers to
letters:

Yes my coat is
toasty. I love it and I'm glad I brought it. I'm going to go find some new
mittens today cause the holes in these ones I brought are huge. And they should
be on clearance since winter is almost over here. (I
was a little worried that her coat wasn't warm enough)

So it sounds
like Heather is about like I was...no eating. Typical. I feel her pain. :) Tell
her to get better! (Heather had her tonsils out but she
is feeling better)

It doesn't
surprise me Jarred Shaw is in trouble.

School was
cancelled here all week. All for a foot and a half of snow...crazy right? I
remember 1 snow day in my entire existence. And that was for like 3 feet of
snow.

I saw one of
that walking lady's DVDs in the library and thought of you and Margo! :) Keep
on walkin'! (Margo, Cecelia and I walk 5 days a week to
DVD's by Leslie Sansone. We have done this for 2 ½ years – Darcie used to join
us some times and she always made fun of Leslie)